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Chelsea FCW, growth, dominance, and taking the scenic route
Chelsea’s best season to date has also been one of the most grueling
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Already, this has been Chelsea FCW’s best ever season. The Blues have been showered in confetti twice already, after winning the league and the league cup. So it’s also a fair bit of genuine irony – not the Alanis Morisette kind – that Chelsea have achieved it all the hard way.
Heading into the 2020-21 season Chelsea faced a lot of questions? What kind of form would Fran Kirby be in? How would the previous season’s top scorer, Bethany England (14 goals, 15 assists in 15 games) fit with Sam Kerr and now Pernille Harder? What about last season’s top assister, Guro Reiten (7 assists, 5 goals)? How do you fit all of the attackers on the pitch? What formation will Emma Hayes deploy? How will other summer signing Melanie Leupolz integrate in midfield? And, assuming all that could get sorted: how good can we really be?
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Her coach, Jens Scheuer, was somewhat shocked by the manner in which she got on the scoresheet, though.
“I was just surprised that she can even score with her left foot!” he laughed afterwards. “I underestimated her a little bit.”
But there was nothing in her performance that caught him off guard.
“Hanna is, for me, one of the best right-backs in the world,” he added. “I see how dynamic she is, how secure she is in her passing, but also how dangerous she can be in our attacking game.”
Glas’ contributions going forward certainly caught the eye in the first leg and those same forays down the right wing caused problems for the U.S. women’s national team in Sweden’s 1-1 draw with the world champions in April.